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CHENNAI: Sify Technologies, a pioneer among private internet service providers (ISP) in India with 5.7 lakh subscribers and a 5.8% market share, is now targeting yet another area of telecommunications for a first mover advantage ? voice over internet protocol (VoIP), for the mass consumer market, as and when government regulation permits it within the country. "It is a foregone conclusion that we would have a tremendous edge in the VoIP space, technically, when such telephony is allowed in India," said Sify's chief architect (CTO)

CHENNAI: Sify Technologies, a pioneer among private internet service providers (ISP) in India with 5.7 lakh subscribers and a 5.8% market share, is now targeting yet another area of telecommunications for a first mover advantage ? Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), for the mass consumer market, as and when government regulation permits it within the country. "It is a foregone conclusion that we would have a tremendous edge in the VoIP space, technically, when such telephony is allowed in India," said Sify chief architect (CTO)

By sending back the recommendations on unrestricted internet telephony back to TRAI, the Telecom Commission has again vacillated in adopting a superior technology in the face of the lobbying by the incumbent telcos. Internet telephony (also referred to as the voice over internet protocol – VoIP) is a technology that allows the user to make telephone calls using a broadband internet connection instead of the regular landline or mobile. The call can be computer to computer, phone to phone and computer to phone.

NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Wednesday extended the last date for submitting comments on licensing issues related to the Next Generation Network (NGN) to March 10, 2009. "Some stakeholders have requested (a) further extension of time for sending their comments. In view of this, the Authority has decided to extend the last date of submission of written comments by all stakeholders up to March 10, 2009," TRAI said in a statement. The sectoral regulator had released a consultation paper on licensing issues relating to deploying the NGN on January 27, seeking opinion of the industry.

Inclusive growth is a political, social and economic necessity. Ensuring this growth would require action across multiple fronts. It's clear that information technology (IT) would play a key role. The ability to access and share actionable information transcending time and distance has changed the way people and companies manufacture, sell, distribute and market. However, the benefits of this change have been limited to a small section of the people which has participated in the global knowledge economy.

The government must accept TRAI's recommendations to remove all curbs on internet telephony. Unrestricted net telephony would drive tariffs further down. More importantly, this would help increase broadband penetration. Internet telephony ? technically voice over Internet protocol ? uses computer or an IP-compatible device to make calls to a computer, another IP device, or a fixed-line/mobile phone using the internet. Internet telephony has remained stunted in India because of regulatory restrictions.

KOLKATA: If you're still waiting for BSNL's already delayed IPTV service, you may be in for a rude shock. State-owned telecoms behemoth plans to take at least another year to ring in the full-fledged launch of internet-protocol TV in the three select cities ? Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Bangalore. So if you're wondering, what went wrong, a couple of things transpired that have now compelled BSNL to ink agreements directly with broadcasters right from the concept stages. Additionally, it also intends to procure and install equipment that will download the content from these channels and distribute it through the internet protocol.

While many of its competitors have tumbled by the information highway, Net4India is slowly and steadily moving forward since its inception in the year 1999. An Internet protocol (IP) communication services provider in India, Net4India is an organisation that focuses on providing communications and business solutions over the Internet for small and medium enterprises who operate within the mid-market segment. Today the company claims to have emerged as the de facto choice for customers who want IP integrated solutions with services like domain name, hosting, business email solutions and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP)

MUMBAI: Tech Mahindra has entered into a strategic global alliance with Microsoft Corp. to address its System Integration (SI) requirements for deployments of the award-winning Microsoft Mediaroom Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and multi-media software platform. Through the alliance, Tech Mahindra's solution will provide deployment and integration services for new and existing Microsoft Mediaroom broadband service provider customers to deploy IPTV services, which are expected to gain momentum in the coming years.

If you thought it was hard finding the e-mail address that some other john.smith hasn't already bagged, that's nothing compared with the difficulty you'll have getting an internet connection for your computer after 2011. As of this month 85% of the 4.3 billion available Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, which identify devices connected to the net, are already in use. Within three years they will all be used up, according to a report by the OECD. The report urges governments and businesses to upgrade from the current version, IPv4, to IPv6, which effectively has an unlimited number of IP addresses.